well, you are "measuring" the light, just with your eyes, which turn out
to be rather good at such estimates with practice ;-) With a meter, you
are also measuring the light, but with a sensor and meter combo. Both
sensors (eye and CdS/SBC..) can be fooled in certain situations, such as
very cold weather (battery current capacity drops..) and hazy high clouds
(the eye ;-).

a large number of photos have not been taken with meter readings, but with
simpler cameras without such electronic sensors, and with considerable
success from the simple directions in the printed film box settings guides

And lots of MF cameras don't have meters, letting you pick whether to use
one or not, and which kind of meter compromises to make if you do pick one
;-)

grins bobm
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